Gerry Cooney Quotes

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

Gerry Cooney

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• In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Always
  • Old
  • Expensive

• The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Enough
  • Call
  • Guess

• When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Old

• Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Why
  • Everything
  • Class

• I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Think
  • Lost
  • Movies

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Home
  • Learn

• I eat a bit too much; my teeth aren't perfect; I've got eye bags. I look like a normal 39-year-old woman - but in England, no one minds that.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Perfect
  • Woman
  • Eye

• I'm a little old-fashioned.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Little
  • Old-fashioned

• I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Everything

• A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Honest
  • Politician

• The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Job
  • Game
  • Team

• As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. I loved that they each covered the same songs and interpreted them totally differently. I thought that was so cool. They could each paint their own picture of that moment.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Cool
  • Picture

• Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Opportunity

• I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • People
  • Hate

• I'd been horse-riding a couple of times, but I wasn't that good.

  

  Craig Horner
  • Good
  • Couple
  • Horse

• I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Free
  • Walking
  • Fitness

• I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Remember

• We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • History

• Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

  

  Gerry Cooney
  • Relationship
  • Winning
  • Training